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Fever surprises Lynx in Game 1 of WNBA Finals

Erlana Larkins had 16 points and 15 rebounds and the Indiana Fever stunned the
defending champion Minnesota Lynx with a 76-70 victory in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals last night in
Minneapolis.

Tamika Catchings added 20 points for the Fever, which played without leading
scorer
Katie Douglas (sprained left ankle).

Seimone Augustus scored 23 points and
Rebekkah Brunson added 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Lynx, which is trying to
become the WNBA’s first repeat champion in 10 years.

Game 2 in the best-of-five series is Wednesday night in Minneapolis.

Indiana scored 15 points off of 17 Minnesota turnovers and outscored the Lynx 38-24 in the paint
to become just the second visiting team this season to beat Minnesota.

Briann January added 11 points and six assists and
Erin Phillips scored 13 for Indiana.

Auto racing

Vettel takes F-1 lead with win in South Korea

Red Bull driver
Sebastian Vettel won the Korean Grand Prix to move ahead of Ferrari’s
Fernando Alonso in the Formula One championship standings by six points with four
races remaining.

Vettel started second on the grid behind
Mark Webber but overtook his teammate on the first turn and never relinquished the
lead, finishing 8.2 seconds ahead of Webber in Yeongam, South Korea. Alonso was third, 13.9 seconds
off the pace.

Vettel, who also won the previous two races in Singapore and Japan, is moving within sight of a
third straight title — something only previously achieved by
Juan-Manuel Fangio and
Michael Schumacher.

Djokovic rallies past Murray in tight match

Novak Djokovic saved five match points in the second set before outlasting
Andy Murray 5-7, 7-6 (11), 6-3 in the Shanghai Masters final.

In another entertaining matchup between the two U.S. Open finalists, Djokovic seemed headed for
defeat when Murray was serving for the match at 5-4 in the second set.

But the second-ranked Serb saved one match point before breaking back for 5-5. He then saved
four more match points in a tense tiebreaker and carried his momentum into the third set, breaking
the Briton twice to earn his fifth title of the year.

When Djokovic was broken for the fourth time in the 11th game of the first set, he lost his cool
and shattered his racket by smashing it into the ground four times before slinging it disgustedly
toward his sideline chair.

“We are professional tennis players and we’re big rivals, but in the end we’re humans. We
shouldn’t be ashamed of our emotions,” Djokovic said. “I don’t see anything bad in showing your
emotions — positive, negative emotions. We can’t just be flat-faced throughout the whole match.”&
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• Top-ranked
Victoria Azarenka won her sixth WTA title of the season by beating
Julia Goerges 6-3, 6-4 at the Generali Ladies in Linz, Austria.

Azarenka has won 13 straight matches without dropping a set since losing the U.S. Open final
last month.

•
Heather Watson became the first British woman in 24 years to win a WTA title by
beating
Chang Kai-chen of Taiwan in the final of the Japan Open in Osaka.

Watson outlasted Chang 7-5, 5-7, 7-6 (4) in 3 hours, 11 minutes to end the long drought for her
country — just three weeks after
Laura Robson became the first British woman in 22 years to even reach a WTA
final.